Legoland Hotel

[Nightpain]

I am looking at organising a family trip to both Legoland and Windsor Castle. It would be about a 3 hour car journey and I have 4 kids, 10, 9, 7 and 4.

I thought it might be nice to stay in the Legoland hotel, thought the kids would get a real kick out of a themed room. BUT, seem to be lots of issue with this.

Firstly we'll need to book x2 rooms, which already doubles the price. Secondly the price looks very expensive. Thirdly, it might be worth paying for significant themage, but whilst some rooms look very themed, other rooms seem to only have a light sprinkling of themage - Perhaps this is the difference between the Castle Hotel and Resort Hotel - could anyone explain the difference if they have experience? Are there other options or just these two?

I've been looking for a website that will allow you to keep dates flexible, but this seems not to exist. I know Kayak used to do this with hotels so you could fit your dates around price and availability, but it doesnt seem to do that any more.

On balance should I just look at normal hotels within jumping distance?

Any advice or experience would be welcome :)

We've stayed in the Resort hotel. 4 kids so two adjoining family rooms (double plus bunk beds around the corner x2) I think they were Ninjago themed. The big issue was that the bunks were very short - eldest DC was almost too tall and he was 9.

We stayed in a hotel nearby lots cheaper! All I will say is avoid July/august. Horrific queues you barely see anything. Also the queue system on the app is wildly inaccurate, a ride might say 2hour queue and it's more like 30m others will say 5m and your queuing 40m. Waste of time! If you can afford fast track I'd spend your money on that and stay in slough travel lodge.

@FromOurHatsToOurFeet

We've stayed in the Resort hotel. 4 kids so two adjoining family rooms (double plus bunk beds around the corner x2) I think they were Ninjago themed. The big issue was that the bunks were very short - eldest DC was almost too tall and he was 9.

You're looking at close to £500 for one night though - on reflection do you think that was worth the money or would you do something different next time?

We stayed in the castle hotel and the kids were very excited about the themed room but the dinner was terrible in the restaurant. I wasn’t overall very impressed with our stay and actually complained. If I were you, I’d opt for cheaper hotel nearby.

Nightpain We went out of season for a Christmas special. So day 1: check in, use the splash pool in the hotel, stay over. Day 2: meet Santa and spend the day on the rides that were open. I can't remember how much it was, but you had to stay in the hotel to get in. There are so many cheaper hotels close by though.

We stayed a few years ago in the resort hotel, in one of the fully themed rooms. It was expensive but the DC loved it!

You could enter the park early (an hour I think) so a good opportunity to get ahead on the rides.

Agree with a PP though the food was absolutely dreadful!